Saturday, September 13, 2008

Interesting technical development: IE8 and Google Chrome are putting tabs in new processes instead of threads. The main reason for creating threads used to be that it takes a relative long time to create a new process and inter-process communication is slow. But, these days the processor speeds are so fast (following Moore's Law etc), creating processes is a piece of cake/can be done really fast.

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I'm a professional software designer/architect/developer with over 20 years of experience. For many years I've been a Technical Team Lead for complex ICT projects. My main area of focus is Java application architectures and related challenges (scalability, performance etcetera), but I'm interested in any software application architecture. Currently Android has got a lot of my attention. I will be posting lessons learned, and lessons that I'll be learning during the coming years :-)